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by baltcode 3698 days ago
No really, this is confusing. OP and the person who downvoted this, it's better to explain. There is Offshore Leaks and there is Panama Leaks. Or is there a different offshore leaks, and Panama papers are also called offshore leaks?
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The Offshore Secrets (2013) was a specific leak about British offshore holdings in the Virgin Islands. The Panama Papers (2016) is a specific leak about offshore holdings managed by Mossack Fonseca in Panama.

This database contains data from the Panama Papers and from what the ICIJ is calling the "Offshore Leaks", which is a conglomeration of the Offshore Secrets and other smaller leaks between then and now.

As I understood they are combined now:

"The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists publishes today a searchable database that strips away the secrecy of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions, from Nevada to Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands.

The data, part of the Panama Papers investigation, is the largest ever release of information about offshore companies and the people behind them. This includes, when available, the names of the real owners of those opaque structures.

The database also displays information about more than 100,000 additional offshore entities ICIJ had already disclosed in its 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation."

https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-databas...